Microsoft Malaysia announced that it is giving a RM330 discount on Surface Pro 3 with Type Cover Bundle for purchases via local distributors, ECS Astar Sdn Bhd and Ingram Micro Malaysia Sdn Bhd. The offer is valid until 12 April 2015, for the following Surface Pro 3,

Oracle announced significant recruitment plans that will add 1,000 new employees to its sales force across ASEAN and Asia Pacific. This will help to drive growth and support demand for Oracle Cloud solutions across the region, it said. Oracle claims it is the only vendor who delivers

Microsoft announced the appointment of K Raman as the new Managing Director of Microsoft Malaysia. He is replacing Carlos Lacerda who was reported to have left Microsoft Malaysia in December 2014. The software giant made no comments regarding Carlos Lacerda’s departure from Microsoft Malaysia. Raman joins Microsoft

InfoWatch, a company that offers data leakage protection solutions, released its Global Data Leakage report for the year 2014 that showed the banking and financial services industries at high risk for data leakage with over 40% of all volume of leaked personal data in 2014 originating from

The National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) unveiled the PIKOM Industry Engagement (PIE) mobile platform aimed at connecting ICT firms and professionals across the industry. PIE is centred on the four key pillars of community engagement, community building, community learning and community empowerment and is part of

Facebook has published its latest report on the requests it gets for user data from governments around the world, including from the Malaysia Government. The Facebook Global Government Requests Report, which covers the second half of 2014, includes information about the government requests the social network received

MasterCard announced that the MasterCard Masters of Code competition will continue its search for the best coders in the world in Singapore on March 28th and 29th. The third of ten hackathons in the year-long series, the Singapore installment will ask developers to create the best commerce

The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and GameFounders, the first gaming startup accelerator in Europe, recently announced a collaboration to bring a regional games accelerator to Malaysia, which will ultimately support Malaysia’s vision of becoming Asia’s games hub by 2020. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between MDeC and

A new subscription Video On Demand (VOD) platform – iflix will soon be launching throughout 2015 in key Southeast Asian markets, including Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The new Internet TV platform is founded by Patrick Grove, CEO of Malaysia-based Catcha Group and co-founder Evolution Media